Andreas Schaerer – The Waves are Rising, Dear! (ACT 9910-2. CD Review by Jon Turney) It doesn’t take much investigation of the remarkably accomplished Swiss vocalist Andreas Schaerer to establish that this […]
Trilok Gurtu – God Is A Drummer (Jazzline Records/ Delta Music Media. D77075. Review by Fiona Mactaggart.) At the age of 68, Indian master percussionist and composer Trilok Gurtu presents this, his […]
BRÅK Festival of Improvised Music (Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton. 29 February 2020. Review by AJ Dehany. Photos courtesy of BRÅK) There’s a smart little place called waterintobeer in Brockley that stocks […]
Celebrating Duncan Lamont (606 Club. 24 February 2020. Review by Brian Blain. All photos by Tony Day) If the show at Steve Rubie’s great 606 club in Chelsea last Monday to celebrate […]
Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) (Pizza Express. 26 February 2020. Review by Alison Bentley) Sometimes the mood of a gig lingers on long after it’s over. British bassist Alison Rayner’s Quintet were […]
Brecker Brothers – Live & Unreleased (Leopard / Delta Music Media. DELTAN77072 Album review by Rob Mallows) I never saw the Brecker Brothers in their seventies and early eighties jazz-funk pomp. I […]
Scottish Jazz Weekend. (Various venues in Edinburgh, February 21-24. Review and all photos by Patrick Hadfield) In an otherwise fallow period, for the second year the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival programmed […]
Mhenwhâr Huws – Body Control (Self-released. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) One of the most interesting things about this Glasgow-based experimental, improvising string and percussion quartet, is perhaps the meaning behind band’s […]
Sebastian’s regular London Column in April-May edition of the German Magazine JAZZTHETIK, with Estonian singer Kadri Voorand on the cover, looks at Canadians in London: What is it about Canadians that makes […]
Karen Sharp Trio – Another Place (KLS Records – KLS001. CD Review by Graham Spry) Saxophonist Karen Sharp first made her mark on British jazz as a member of Humphrey Lyttelton’s eight-piece […]
Nick Costley-White “Speak Like A Child” Sextet (Pizza Express Dean Street. 23 February 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What a great project. Speak Like a Child was an album by Herbie Hancock […]
‘Jackson Miller’ is a new band, the brainchild of drummer, composer and sound designer Rodney Green, which will be in London for the first time this Sunday. In this project he takes […]
The Milk Factory – Aula (De Werf Records W.E.R.F.163. CD Review by Dick Hovenga*) Ghent jazz band The Milk Factory is quite exceptional. In 2018 we heard them live, at the renowned […]
Art Themen – Thane & The Villeins (Hadleigh Jazz Records. CD review by Leonard Weinreich) In the good ol’ days of American legend, when men sported hand-painted ties and automobiles sprouted fins, […]
John Ghost – Airships Are Organisms (SDBANUCD11. CD review by Dick Hovenga*) Flemish sextet John Ghost deserves all of our attention. Their debut album, For A Year They Slept, made quite the […]
